{"id":35016,"date":"2025-09-16T05:39:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T09:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/berthoumieu-suspended-for-12-matches-for-biting-at-the-womens-rugby-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T05:39:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T09:39:22","slug":"berthoumieu-suspended-for-12-matches-for-biting-at-the-womens-rugby-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/berthoumieu-suspended-for-12-matches-for-biting-at-the-womens-rugby-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Berthoumieu, suspended for 12 matches for biting at the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Scandal at the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup: Berthoumieu Appeals Suspension for Bite<\/h2>\n\n\nFrench player Axelle Berthoumieu admitted to biting Ireland&#8217;s Aoife Wafer during the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup quarter-final match, but has appealed her 12-match suspension.\n\nFrance captain Mana\u00e9 Feleu is also appealing a three-match suspension. This situation could leave her out of the semi-final against England and the final or the third-place match.\n\nBerthoumieu admitted in a foul play review hearing that his bite deserved a red card and the off-field sanction was justified.\n\nThe incident occurred during France&#8217;s 18-13 victory over Ireland on Sunday in Exeter. The referee referred the incident to the Television Match Official (TMO) to review the footage.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Upon reviewing the live incident, the TMO could not determine clear and obvious foul play and did not have the benefit of additional evidence presentations to corroborate.<\/p><cite>World Rugby<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nBerthomieu was cited after the match by the citation commissioner.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0915%2Fr1546183_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Axelle Berthoumieu, izquierda, admiti\u00f3 haber mordido a la estrella irlandesa Aoife Wafer durante la victoria de Francia en los cuartos de final de la Copa del Mundo el domingo.\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nFor the sanction, the panel began the suspension in 18 games and deducted six.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Although the player acknowledged the foul play and expressed remorse, full mitigation was not granted due to the seriousness of the player&#8217;s actions and the fact that the player had the opportunity not to continue with the action.<\/p><cite>World Rugby<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nBerthomieu appealed against the length of the 12-match suspension, which would keep her out of the rest of the World Cup and prevent her from playing until March 1st.\n\nYour appeal will be heard on Tuesday.\n\nThe 25-year-old player, Berthomieu, has accumulated 27 international matches since her debut in 2019, including France&#8217;s four matches in this World Cup, the first for her.\n\nFeleu, who leads Les Bleues in her second World Cup, was cited for a dangerous tackle that was not sanctioned on the field. In her hearing, she accepted that there was foul play, but did not believe it deserved a citation.\n\nThe panel found her guilty of high-speed head-to-head contact without mitigation.\n\nYour appeal will also be heard on Tuesday against a suspension that threatens to be a major blow to France&#8217;s title hopes.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scandal at the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup: Berthoumieu Appeals Suspension for Bite French player Axelle Berthoumieu admitted to biting Ireland&#8217;s Aoife Wafer during the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup quarter-final match, but has appealed her 12-match suspension. France captain Mana\u00e9 Feleu is also appealing a three-match suspension. This situation could leave her out of the semi-final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[8764,203,110,522],"class_list":{"0":"post-35016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rugby","7":"tag-biting","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-suspension","10":"tag-world-cup"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}